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  • Research and Markets: Missile Defense Systems Market to Grow 5% Through 2024 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Missile Defense Systems Market to Grow 5% Through 2024

    Research and Markets has released a new report that predicts the global missile defense systems market could grow to $38.5 billion in value through 2024, up 4.93 percent from 2014. The report analyzes market size over the next decade, global industry values, market demand and industry challenges, Research and Markets said Wednesday. Research and Markets projects the market for missile defense systems during the […] More

  • Executive Profile: Steve Lubniewski, IBM Defense and Intell Unit VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Steve Lubniewski, IBM Defense and Intell Unit VP

    Steve Lubniewski serves as vice president and industry leader for the defense and intelligence business unit within the public sector organization at IBM‘s global services segment. He leads a team that works with defense and intelligence agencies on projects related to enterprise resource planning, cloud computing, business analytics, consulting and new technologies along with IT infrastructure operations […] More

  • Mercury Systems Receives $6M Radar Subsystems Follow-on Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Receives $6M Radar Subsystems Follow-on Order

    Mercury Systems will provide technical support for an unnamed company’s naval radar applications under a follow-on task order worth $5.7 million. The work will run for several months and include solutions for digital signal processing systems, the company said Thursday. Brian Hoerl, Mercury vice president of sales, indicated that the new project extends the company’s […] More

  • Executive Profile: Dwight Hunsicker, Globecomm Gov't Solutions SVP and GM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Dwight Hunsicker, Globecomm Gov’t Solutions SVP and GM

    Dwight Hunsicker serves as senior vice president and general manager of Globecomm Systems’ government solutions business unit. In this role, he is responsible for the unit’s go-to-market strategy and leads work to position the company’s products and services within the government market space. Hunsicker leads a team of business development and sales professionals that work with agencies […] More

  • Verizon's Michael Maiorana: Digital Age 'Fundamentally' Transforming Gov't - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Michael Maiorana: Digital Age ‘Fundamentally’ Transforming Gov’t

    Michael Maiorana, senior vice president for public sector markets at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, told MILCOM 2014 conference attendees this week that agencies face a challenge to make sense of information in today’s technology-driven world. Maiorana told the audience that actionable intelligence is what helps enterprises achieve gains from informed decision-making and situational awareness. “The digital age that […] More

  • Research and Markets: Military Laser Systems Market Worth $3B By 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Military Laser Systems Market Worth $3B By 2020

    Research and Markets forecasts that the military laser systems market for the aerospace, defense and homeland security industries will reach a market value of $2.73 billion within the next six years. This 4.23 percent compound annual growth rate is due to increased research and development activity and a move toward self-sufficiency of some Asia-Pacific and European countries, the firm […] More

  • Deltek Breaks Down $206B in Potential Defense, Civilian Contract Awards for FY 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Breaks Down $206B in Potential Defense, Civilian Contract Awards for FY 2015

    Deltek expects the federal government to award up to $206 billion in fiscal year 2015 contracts for information technology support and other professional services, Federal Times reported Sunday. Aaron Boyd writes that projection represents a $145 billion increase from Deltek’s estimated total value of the top 20 GovCon opportunities during FY 2014. The General Services […] More

  • Exelis to Launch New Electronic Warfare Offering; Joe Rambala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis to Launch New Electronic Warfare Offering; Joe Rambala Comments

    Exelis will unveil a multifunctional electronic warfare system at a symposium Tuesday in Washington. The Disruptor SRx EW technology works to respond to changing mission requirements in real time, Exelis said Monday. “Disruptor SRx is an important milestone in the company’s long history of innovating to protect against evolving electronic threats,” said Joe Rambala, vice president and general […] More

  • MITRE's Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE’s Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book

    Carson Zimmerman, principal cybersecurity engineer at MITRE Corp., has outlined strategies to bolster computer network defense across the government, industry, academia and nonprofit sector in his new book. The book, entitled Ten Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, contains best practices based on lessons learned from MITRE’s previous projects with U.S. military and civilian clients, MITRE said Wednesday. Zimmerman […] More

  • Chris Chadwick: Boeing to Shift Defense Support Operations to Missouri, Other US Sites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Chadwick: Boeing to Shift Defense Support Operations to Missouri, Other US Sites

    Boeing plans to transfer most of its defense support functions to St. Louis, Oklahoma City and other sites from Washington. The company estimates the relocation will take three years to complete and affect approximately 2,000 defense workers at the company’s offices in the Puget Sound area, Boeing said Monday. “The decision to consolidate these activities […] More

  • Executive Profile: Ron Yaggi, IO Government Programs SVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Ron Yaggi, IO Government Programs SVP

    Brigadier General (ret) Ron Yaggi serves as the senior vice president of IO government programs. He has more than 25 years experience in running large organizations, including large profit and loss operations, strategic planning and business development/capture involving intelligence and cyber operations; program management,foreign military sales and national security strategy in the Defense Department, consultation […] More